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Paperback / softback. New. Tells the story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. This book demonstrates how quickly the shallow wells of Dutch New Amsterdam were overwhelmed, leaving the English and American city beleaguered by filth, epidemics, and fires. ISBN 0691089760 9780691089768 [GB]

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[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]

Paperback / softback. New. Tells the story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. This book demonstrates how quickly the shallow wells of Dutch New Amsterdam were overwhelmed, leaving the English and American city beleaguered by filth, epidemics, and fires. ISBN 0691089760 9780691089768 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0691089760, ISBN13: 9780691089768, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Water for Gotham tells the spirited story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element--clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, Gerard Koeppel demonstrates how quickly the shallow wells of Dutch New Amsterdam were overwhelmed, leaving the English and American city beleaguered by filth, epidemics, and fires. This situation changed only when an outside water source was finally secured in 1842--the Croton Aqueduct, a model for urban water supplies in the United States.As the fertile wilderness enjoyed by the first Europeans in Manhattan vanishes and the magnitude of New York's water problem grows, the reader is introduced to the plans of Christopher Colles, builder of the first American steam engine, and of Joseph Browne, the first to call for a mainland water source for this island-city. In this vividly written true-life fable of the 'Fools of Gotham,' the chief obstacle to the aqueduct is the Manhattan Company. Masterminded by Aaron Burr, with the complicity of Alexander Hamilton and other leading New Yorkers, the company was a ruse, serving as the charter for a bank--today's Chase Manhattan. The cholera epidemic of 1832 and the great fire three years later were instrumental in forcing the ...
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ISBN10: 0691089760, ISBN13: 9780691089768, [publisher: Princeton University Press 2001-09-05, Princeton, N.J. |Chichester] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]